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In my professional life, I share stories firmly grounded in facts. If I stray a little bit from solid reporting, I hear about it and it hurts my most important quality as a journalist — credibility.

In my private life, well, I've been known to tell a whopper or two.

I don't know where I first heard the legend, but when Gov. Larry Hogan stood in front of the Bay Bridge Tuesday to announce he was putting up $5 million for a study of where, when and how to build a new bridge across the Chesapeake, it was among the first things to come to mind.

That body in the bridge.

I remember exactly where I first heard it, if not who told me. In the winter of 1974, a year after...

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